stann Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Hello While I am at it. Is there a plug that will retrieve an entire web page and view it in Filemaker? Thanks STAN FileMaker Version: 7 Platform: Mac OS X Panther Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenton Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 It depends what you mean by a "web page." A web page could be said to be its text source code, along with referenced objects (such as graphic files). FileMaker is not going to render a web page from that, at least not yet. You can get the source code on Macs using AppleScript to ask the browser; implementation varies however. If you just want the text (just the text) on the page in a readable form it is simple on OS X using AppleScript: tell application "Safari" set theText to text of document 1 end tell For cross-platform Troi has a URL plug-in, which can get the source code and do more. There may be other plug-ins also. In order to see pictures you would have download them, obviously. I imagine that could be done with AppleScript; but at that point I'd wonder why not just use the browser and the URL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stann Posted April 7, 2004 Author Share Posted April 7, 2004 Thanks for the answer I guess, I want something to get a picture as well. I would like to have a picture come into filemaker. Cross platform. But you don't think the Troi product would do this? Thanks for your input Stan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenton Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 I just don't know whether Troi does this or not. I've only messed about with the text myself, on Mac (mostly so I could store messages from this forum :-) It would have to have the ability to continue downloading the links on a page. It would be nice to only download those which are image tags. A web page is not a "page," just as a FileMaker page is not just a text or image page. Well, on computers nothing really is a page. It's whatever the current application is rendering. A web page is text with tags leading to other files, containing text or images (or movies, or...). It is a composite of separate files and folders. Some, such as ads, lead off to other servers. If Troi doesn't do it, perhaps one of the PDF plug-ins could, by capturing the web page as an image. I just don't know. But that would be the simplest route, I would think, avoiding the problems above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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